Gigabyte latterly conveyed us an modified GeForce GTX 470 with the maximal mill overclock that we've seen. Is the custom-cooled roster worth an artefact $70 bucks? We check the GV-N470SO-13I, examination it to Nvidia's indite GTX 470, in arrangement to conceptualize out.Gigabyte has been swing several intellectual toil into its reward Caretaker Overclock edition graphics cards, oft producing products with the highest works overclocks procurable. Today, we feature the assay to effort its new GV-N470SO-13I Caretaker Overclock edition.


The raw specifications intimate that this is the fastest factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 470 free to familiar, and we're eager to measure adscititious show against the payment you pay for higher-end graphics.Gigabyte's overclocked GeForce GTX 470 comes factory-equipped with a nucleus timepiece intensify of 700 MHz, which is near 100 MHz faster than the inventory 607 MHz spec. The shaders run at 1400 MHz, snug to 200 MHz higher than Nvidia's compose 1215 MHz. Gigabyte claims that the overclock delivers 12% meliorate show than a stock GeForce GTX 470, and we'll see if our benchmarks strengthener this quest.

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Regrettably, the card's remembering isn't overclocked. It runs at the synoptical 837 MHz GDDR5 as Nvidia's meaning card. This should administer us some sensibility as to whether the GF100 GPU is bandwidth-constrained or not.We ascertain it unputdownable that Gigabyte has a marketing constitute for what is essentially a GPU binning walk: GPU Gauntlet. The visitor claims that each GPU is tested for 30 proceedings for overclocking headway.


After that, commonwealth switching and changelessness are also proven to insure that the GPUs with the superior country efficiency and smallest nation intake are misused in the Caretaker Overclock programme. Gigabyte actually guarantees GPU overclocking headroom 15% beyond the indicator spec.A fast look is all it takes to recall that Gigabyte elected to arm its carte with a many potent cooler than Nvidia's compose drier.